The Rover, or the Banished Cavaliers

Alternative title(s): The Rover, Part 1
Author(s): Behn, Aphra
Note: «The entire plan and many details of both parts of The Rover are taken openly and unreservedly from Tom Killigrew’s Thomaso, or The wanderer, an unacted comedy likewise in two parts» (Summers, Works, vol. 1.). A second part appeared in 1681. Aphra Behn (1640 – 1689)
Date of composition:
  • 1677 (latest)
Date of first performance: 1677
Date of first publication: 1677
Genre (Annals): Comedy

  • 1677 quarto Amery, John Printed title: The rover. Or, The banish't cavaliers single-play print

Early Performances

  • Company: The Duke’s Company Venue: Dorset Garden Date: 1677
    Cast:
      Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
      Note: 24 March.
      Information source: Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Volume 1 Restoration Drama 1660-1700. 1952.

    Modern editions

    • Russell, Ann, ed. Aphra Behn: The Rover. In: The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2013, pp. 175–229
    • Womersley, David, ed. Restoration Drama: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. Blackwell Anthologies.
    • Jensen, H. James, ed. The Sensational Restoration. Bloomington: Indiana Masterpiece Editions, 1996. Indiana Masterpiece Editions.
    • Todd, Janet, ed. . The Works of Aphra Behn: The Plays, 1678-1682. Vol. 6. London: William Pickering, 1996.
    • Bolam, Robyn, ed. The Rover. Behn, Aphra. London: A & C Black, 1995. New Mermaids.
    • Spencer, Jane, ed. The Rover ; The Feigned Courtesans ; The Lucky Chance ; The Emperor of the Moon / Aphra Behn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Oxford World’s Classics.
    • Russell, Ann, ed. The Rover. Behn, Aphra. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1994.
    • Lawrence, Robert G., ed. Restoration Plays. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1994. The Everyman Library.
    • Lomax, Marion, ed. The rover. London: Black, 1994, pp. 126. New mermaids.
    • Naismith, Bill, ed. The Rover. Behn, Aphra. London: Methuen, 1993. Methuen Student Edition.
    • Todd, Janet, ed. Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Works. Behn, Aphra. London: Penguin Books, 1992.
    • Link, Frederick M., ed. The Rover. Behn, Aphra. London: Edward Arnold, 1967. Regents Restoration Drama.
    • Moore, Cecil A., ed. Twelve Famous Plays of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. New York: Modern Library, 1933. The Modern Library of the World’s Best Books.
    • Gosse, Sir Edmund Restoration Plays. London: Dent, 1932. Everyman’s Library.
    • Summers, Montague, ed. The Rover. Behn, Aphra. In: The Works of Aphra Behn. London ; Stratford-on-Avon: William Heinemann : A.H. Bullen, 1915

    Select Bibliography: Translations

    • ES:
      • Behn, Aphra. El exiliado. Tra. Ballesteros González, Antonio. Madrid: Asociación de Directores de Escena, 2003. Literatura dramática. (Orig: The Rover)
    • DE:
      • Behn, Aphra. Der Pirat oder Edle im Exil. Tra. Berkenhoff, Donald. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1991. (Orig: The Rover, or the Banished Cavaliers)

    Select Bibliography: Criticism

    • Motten, J. P. "Recycling the Exile: Thomaso, 'The Rover' and the Critics". Ed. Major, Philip. homas Killigrew and the Seventeenth-Century English Stage: New Perspectives. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013, p. 133-150.
    • Suwalska-Kol?ecka, Anna. "Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Aphra Behn's 'The Rover' and Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine". Ed. Wieckowska, Katarzyna; Lorek-Jezinska, Edyta. Ex-Changes: Comparative Studies in British and American Cultures. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2012, p. 189-199.
    • Olivier, Sarah. "'Banished His Country, Despised at Home': Cavalier Politics, Banishment, and Rape in Aphra Behn's 'The Rover'". Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research. 2012, vol. 1, 27, p. 55-74.
    • Morrow, Sarah E. "Daddy's Girls (and Boy): Negotiating Absenteeism, Proximate Cause, and Social Order in Aphra Behn's 'The Rover'". Sigma Tau Delta Review. 2012, 9, p. 16-25.
    • Gymnich, Marion. "Restoration Comedies: William Wycherley's The Country Wife, Aphra Behn's 'The Rover', and William Congreve's The Way of the World". Ed. Baumbach, Sibylle; Neumann, Birgit; Nünning, Ansgar. A History of British Drama: Genres-Developments-Model Interpretations. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2011, p. 114-127.
    • Pacheco, Anita. "Teaching Behn's 'The Rover'". Ed. Nelson, Bonnie; Burroughs, Catherine. Teaching British Women Playwrights of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2010, p. 364-372.
    • Rosenthal, Laura J. "Cultural Studies in the Classroom: Behn's 'The Rover'". Ed. Nelson, Bonnie; Burroughs, Catherine. Teaching British Women Playwrights of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2010, p. 315-324.
    • Tomé Rosales, Angeles. "Challenging Gender Hierarchy through Humour in Aphra Behn's 'The Rover' I & II". Babel: Aspectos de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemá. 2009, 18, p. 105-123.
    • Kondrath, Rita Allison. "Subverting Hierarchy and Vying for Agency: Mistresses and Maidservants in Pix's The Beau Defeated and Behn's 'The Rover'". Ed. Engel, Laura. The Public's Open to Us All: Essays on Women and Performancein Eighteenth-Century England. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2009, p. 30-54.
    • Black, Cheryl. "Transgressive Female Desire and Subversive Critique in the Seventeenth Century Canon: JoAnne Akalaitis's Staging of Phèdre, 'The Rover', and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore". Ed. Friedman, Sharon. Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works: Critical Essays. Jefferson: McFarland, 2009, p. 135-151.
    • Lockey, Brian C. "A language all nations understand': portraiture and the politics of Anglo-Spanish identity in Aphra Behn's 'The Rover'". Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 2009, vol. 1, 39, p. 161-81.
    • Bender, Ashley Brookne. "Moving Miniatures and Circulating Bodies in Aphra Behn's 'The Rover'". Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700. 2007, vol. 1, 31, p. 27-46.
    • Corse, Taylor. "Seventeenth-Century Naples and Aphra Behn's 'The Rover'". Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700. 2005, vol. 2, 29, p. 41-51.
    • Burke, Helen M. "The Cavalier Myth in 'The Rover'". Ed. Hughes, Derek; Todd, Janet. The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 118-34.
    • Beach, Adam R. "Carnival Politics, Generous Satire, and Nationalist Spectacle in Behn's 'The Rover'". Eighteenth-Century Life. 2004, vol. 3, 28, p. 1-19.
    • Zozaya, Pilar. "Representing Women in Restoration England: A Re-Assessment of Aphra Behn's The Rover". Ed. Luis-Martínez, Zenón; Figueroa-Dorrego, Jorge. Re-Shaping the Genres: Restoration Women Writers. Bern: Peter Lang, 2003, p. 99-122.
    • Pacheco, Anita. "Aphra Behn, The Rover, Part One". Ed. Pacheco, Anita. A Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002, p. 203-15.
    • Fukushi, Wataru. "Royalism and Feminism: Aphra Behn's Dilemma in the Two Parts of 'The Rover'". Shiron. 2002, 40, p. 1-14.
    • Kraft, Elizabeth. "Ethics, Politics, and Heterosexual Desire in Aphra Behn's 'The Rover'". Essays in Theatre/Etudes Théâtrales. 2001, vol. 2, 19, p. 111-25.
    • Caywood, Cynthia; Hain, Bonnie A. "Breaking the Confining Silence: Unstable Valences and Language in Aphra Behn's 'The Rover'". Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research. 2001, vol. 2, 16, p. 24-39.
    • Ikegami, Robin. "Teaching Aphra Behn's 'The Rover'". Ed. Woods, Susanne; Hannay, Margaret P. Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2000, p. 308-11.
    • Lakhoua, Khaoula Chahed. "Power of the Powerless in Aphra Behn's 'The Rover'". Ed. O'Donnell, Mary Ann; Dhuicq, Bernard; Leduc, Guyonne. Aphra Behn (1640-1689): Identity, Alterity, Ambiguity. Paris: Harmattan, 2000, p. 177-82.
    • Copeland, Nancy. "Reviving Aphra Behn: 'The Rover' in the 'Restoration' Repertoire". Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research. 1999, vol. 1, 14, p. 1-18.
    • Diamond, Elin. "Gestus and Signature in Aphra Behn's 'The Rover'". Ed. Pacheco, Anita. Early Women Writers: 1600-1720. London: Longman, 1998, p. 160-82.
    • Payne, Linda R. "The Carnivalesque Regeneration of Corrupt Economies in 'The Rover'". Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700. 1998, vol. 1, 22, p. 40-49.
    • Copeland, Nancy. "'Once a Whore and Ever'? Whore and Virgin in 'The Rover' and Its Antecedents". Ed. Pacheco, Anita. Early Women Writers: 1600-1720. London: Longman, 1998, p. 149-59.
    • Szilagyi, Stephen. "The sexual politics of Behn's Rover: after patriarchy". Studies in Philology. 1998, vol. 4, 95, p. 435-55.
    • Pacheco, Anita. "Rape and the female subject in Aphra Behn's 'The Rover'". ELH: journal of English literary history. 1998, vol. 2, 65, p. 323-45.
    • Stewart, Ann Marie. "Rape, Patriarchy, and the Libertine Ethos: The Function of Sexual Violence in Aphra Behn's 'The Golden Age' and 'The Rover, Part I'". Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research. 1997, vol. 2, 12, p. 26-39.
    • Spencer, Jane. "'The Rover' and the Eighteenth Century". Ed. Todd, Janet. Aphra Behn Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 84-106.
    • Owens, W. R. "The Rover or the Banished Cavaliers / Aphra Behn". Ed. Owens, W. R; Goodman, Lizbeth. Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, and the Canon. London: Routledge, 1996, p. 261-334.
    • Boebel, Dagny. "In the Carnival World of Adam's Garden: Roving and Rape in Behn's Rover". Ed. Quinsey, Katherine M.. Broken Boundaries: Women and Feminism in Restoration Drama. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1996, p. 54-70.
    • Bobker, Danielle. "Behn: Auth-Whore or Writer? Authorship and Identity in 'The Rover'". Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research. 1996, vol. 1, 11, p. 32-39.
    • Kaufman, Anthony. "'The Perils of Florinda': Aphra Behn, Rape, and the Subversion of Libertinism in The Rover, Part I". Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research. 1996, vol. 2, 11, p. 1-21.
    • Sunde, Karen Bickel. "More than Fancy's Image: A New Rhetorical Analysis of Argument Structures in 'The Man of Mode' and 'The Rover I'". Dissertation Abstracts International. 1996, vol. 8, 56, .
    • Owens, W. R.; Goodman, Lizbeth. "Remaking the canon: Aphra Behn's 'The Rover'". Ed. Owens, W. R.; Goodman, Lizbeth. Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the canon. New York: Routledge, 1996, p. 131-91.
    • Carlson, Susan. "Cannibalizing and Carnivalizing: Reviving Aphra Behn's 'The Rover'". Theatre Journal. 1995, vol. 4, 47, p. 517-39.
    • Roh, Seung-hee. "Seduction of Masquerading Signs: Aphra Behn's Authorship and 'The Rover'". The Journal of English Language and Literature. 1995, vol. 4, 41, p. 1099-1122.
    • Fitzmaurice, James. "The Language of Gender and a Textual Problem in Aphra Behn's 'The Rover'". Neuphilologische Mitteilungen: Bulletin de la Societe Neophilologique/Bulletin of the Modern Language Society. 1995, vol. 3, 96, p. 283-93.
    • Franceschina, John. "Shadow and Substance in Aphra Behn's 'The Rover': The Semiotics of Restoration Performance". Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700. 1995, vol. 1, 19, p. 29-42.
    • Kinney, Suz-Anne. "Confinement Sharpens the Invention: Aphra Behn's 'The Rover' and Susanna Centlivre's The Busie Body". Ed. Finney, Gail. Look Who's Laughing: Gender and Comedy. Langhorne: Gordon and Breach, 1994, p. 81-98.
    • Nash, Julie. "'The Sight on't Would Beget a Warm Desire': Visual Pleasure in Aphra Behn's 'The Rover'". Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700. 1994, vol. 2, 18, p. 77-87.
    • Hutner, Heidi. "Revisioning the Female Body: Aphra Behn's 'The Rover', Parts I and II". Ed. Hutner, Heidi. Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory, and Criticism. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1993, p. 102-20.
    • Copeland, Nancy. "'Once a Whore and Ever'? Whore and Virgin in 'The Rover' and Its Antecedents". Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700. 1992, vol. 1, 16, p. 20-27.
    • Copeland, Nancy. "Re-Producing 'The Rover': John Barton's Rover at the Swan". Essays in Theatre. 1990, vol. 1, 9, p. 45-59.
    • Diamond, Elin. "Gestus and Signature in Aphra Behn's 'The Rover'". ELH. 1989, vol. 3, 56, p. 519-41.
    • Munns, Jessica. "Barton and Behn's 'The Rover'; Or, The Text Transpos'd". Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research. 1988, vol. 2, 3, p. 11-22.
    • DeRitter, Jones. "The Gypsy, The Rover, and the Wanderer: Aphra Behn's Revision of Thomas Killigrew". Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700. 1986, vol. 2, 10, p. 82-92.
    • Musser, Joseph F., Jr. "'Imposing Nought but Constancy in Love': Aphra Behn Snares The Rover". Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700. 1979, vol. 1, 3, p. 17-25.

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